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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ngaylinn@tech.lgbt ("Nate Gaylinn") wrote:
@jonny Heh, but humans are different, Jonny... ;)
I dunno, I get pretty frustrated by the gap between what scientists mostly agree on and what we actually teach the general public.
Like, my pre-PhD worry of "how come nobody has said..." has now morphed into "how come nobody has heard of..."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The objections in both cases are mirrors of each other: "but it will take a long time!" and "but the won't solve !".
I have good news on both fonts: the more of it we do, the better and faster we get at it, and the more new problems we develop capacity to solve.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
My position on new HTML elements is the same as my view of new underground Muni & BART lines: we should be adding a new one every year, based on good data about needs, until life feels meaningfully better for the average user.
And then we should keep at it for another decade to make up for lost time.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source”
https://blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-invisible-newcomer-in-open-source/
> Organic traffic to community spaces was down roughly 30 percent, traceable to question-and-answer behavior moving to LLMs.
The post is a little too optimistic overall, which is counterproductive (too much optimism leads you waste effort on solutions that will never work), but outlines a core part of the problem well
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Feedback loops require real feedback. AI drives it underground.”
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/feedback-loops-require-real-feedback-ai-drives-it-underground
> The methods we take for granted have load-bearing requirements that have already gone extinct in many organizations.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
One guess (no prizes) for a rough estimate of that ratio at Apple, Google, and Meta, expressed as the % of the marketing budget spent on ironclad pro-privacy-lobbying & advocacy.
Rounding up, do you have any doubt it's < 1% for all of them?
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
apparently jensen huang has to multiple journalists gone through their wallet and called them poor.
what the actual fucking fuck?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
When Big Tech tech talks about privacy, the way judge if it's to sell you a placebo vs. a serious commitment is the ratio between their marketing budget and the dollars spent to lobby for abolishing data brokers and making data about you *your* property:
https://nooneshappy.com/article/data-brokers-unregulated-forensic-analysis/
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Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
This is one of those rare times when the information we actually need comes from literal fucking stage magicians con artists and mentalists about how duping a horde of hungry marks works.
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mcc wrote:
Poll: Have you ever met in real life a person you first met on a BBS?
(For these purposes include Compuserve, eWorld, AOL as BBSes, unless you were using AOL to access TCP/IP services. My goal here is to describe pre-Internet modem-based services, so I"m inclined to say long-distance FIDO contact counts as "BBS", but USENET doesn't.)
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mcc wrote:
Poll: Have you ever swiped left (or right) on a screen on a picture of a person to indicate you do (or don't) want to date them?
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mikey@soylent.green ("Mikey Dickerson") wrote:
"All of this has shown me that nothing ever needed to be good. It needed to be done, and done used to require a person who knew how. Good was just this…. cool little side effect. Now to get something done you don’t need the person. Done is free, good is extra, and nobody pays extra. "
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Motherfucker if I wanted the boilerplate for a hybrid rust/python package before now my options would have been to look at the docs and do it according to how the adapter was designed, but in this brave new world I need to convince a model that I know something is possible by fighting through layers of gaslighting telling me its not!?!?!?!
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
It told me I was asking "the wrong question" about why it had duplicated the logic across four separate implementations, that instead "the only question that's relevant is why there are four modules in the first place if it wasn't supposed to use them" (it created three of them). The new tone is just capitalizing on cognitive surrender and making people doubt themselves to appear smarter. AKA THIS IS CON ARTIST 101 SHIT
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
I genuinely try these tools, I use them with all the recommended usage patterns, I try to do all the magic context management tricks, they sometimes hit the slot machine jackpot and get something right, but the rest of the time they just make doing what I know should be done 10x as expensive and confusing.
There is a new brand of post in the anthropic subreddit, people being amazed at how good the advice fable gave them. The reason they cite is that fable pushed back on them heavily and arrived at some Socratic solution. But if you ask them "OK so was the advice actually good" (e.g. did investing advice make you money, did relationship advice save your relationship, etc.) The answer is crickets. The new pattern for convincing people of model efficacy seems to just be negging them, and it also seems to be an effective enough product change to sell through the IPO
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
PhilSalkie@mindly.social wrote:
What a shocker - US groups that are pushing propaganda against offshore wind energy development are funded by Big Oil.
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Yesterday I prompted the best model in the world for hours about how to move modules from one package to another, something that would have taken me minutes, but I used up a 4 hour usage limit on the single prompt "move these modules from this package in directory x to this other module in package y". It gave me a philosophical counterargument which was total bullshit and tried to gaslight me about the limits of the rust/python interface through maturin. An extremely training set rich space. I actually knew how to do this but was trying to see what the hype was about. The hype was about a new flavor of parlor tricks that talks down to you instead of being a pure sycophant.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Yeah sure its normal to have a technology that is totally the future sliced off for us in product releases that have a completely undefinable cost for a completely undefinable outcome, but the cost keeps going up and the models are increasingly the subject of geopolitical conflict. That's a stable and safe bet and one that I am willing to irrevocably tie my entire professional practice around.
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
The top is in, all that's left is a long chain of your ass getting got.
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
"At least we have Facebook's weights and also China seems to be giving away an extremely capital intensive digital artifact for free for seemingly no reason"
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Duh you dumbass mfs anyone can turn the thing off at any point and have full control over how it works and that has been the entire problem the whole time
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Very funny to me that the AI community that still has brain turned on is like "see US government can turn off the models at any time, must be resilient" w.r.t anthropic fable when I am over here like "simply not being reliant on a made up need"
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Mastodon FeedIs Apple vibe coding too? Even the bug reporting tool doesn't make sense any more #GoldenGate
Mastodon FeedI don't like that at all. It looks completely broken, and I can't tell whether that's by design or actually a rendering glitch.
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quephird@tech.lgbt ("What Will Danielle Code after WWDC?") wrote:
Ok, I’ve seen this before and I guffaw loudly every single time.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
This explains in a concise manner why "local models" is not an ethical solution to AI that we'd like to have.
Opensource AI Must Win | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/sqh2uq/opensource%5Fai%5Fmust%5Fwin#c%5Frhpbn5
Mastodon Feedkevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:
Participated in my first #FixItFair today! Got a few things fixed and advised others to get parts, etc. Only a couple things were truly broken. 😁
More info for #Kitsap folks: https://www.kitsap.gov/pw/Pages/fixitfair.aspx/